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Council examines Berry space

By Megan Spillane | November 7, 2003

The Council on Libraries met Wednesday to discuss several issues concerning both the design of physical spaces within Baker Berry and the digital course reserves. The Council, which is comprised of members of the administration, faculty and the student body, looks into many of the long term issues confronting the library and is largely responsible for the direction that the entire library system takes.

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Prof.: Migrants face abuses in Canada

By Robert Kimmitt | November 6, 2003

Filipina migrant workers in Canada do not enjoy many of the rights afforded to the general population, Geraldine Pratt said in a lecture yesterday. Pratt, a professor at the University of British Columbia, co-authored a book entitled "Gender, Work and Space", part of which addresses the topic of migrant workers. There are "grave human rights violations perpetuated by the Canadian Department of Citizenship and Immigration against...migrant Filipinas," Pratt said, quoting a press release by the Philippine Women Center. Pratt focused on the Canadian government's Live-in Caregiver Program. "They certainly do not get paid fairly.

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Towey urges faith-based solutions

By Matthew Kelly | November 6, 2003

While President Bush has garnered criticism over major issues such as Iraq and the economy, yesterday at Dartmouth Hall a member of his administration addressed another flashpoint of controversy -- his proposal to federally fund faith-based charitable organizations.

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Community supports residents of local motel

By Daniel Preysman | November 6, 2003

As White River Junction's Maple Leaf Motel closes its aging doors today, the Upper Valley breathes a sigh of relief. Just over a month ago, the low-slung brick motel that crouches just next to Route 5 sparked a flurry of news reports after landlord Dana Whitney sent an eviction notice to the 17 families who had made permanent homes out of the motel.

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Diversity may curb binge-drinking

By Jenna Farleigh | November 6, 2003

High-risk drinkers -- generally identified as white, male and underage -- tend to drink less on American college campuses if living among high numbers of non-white, female or older students, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health. The study, conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health, surveyed students from 114 colleges four times between 1993 and 2001.

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Rabbi offers suggestions for peace in Middle East

By Vivian Chung | November 5, 2003

Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of the progressive Jewish magazine Tikkun, urged undergraduates to value love, cooperation and "recognition of the humanity of the others" in a speech in Brace Commons yesterday. Lerner said that, for the past several thousand years, there has been a "big struggle going on between two world views." The first is one that believes that "human beings are fundamentally aggressive, and desire to dominate and control others," Lerner said.

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Poll: Bush leads on university campuses nationwide

By Jenna Farleigh | November 5, 2003

Contrary to what the ubiquity of Howard Dean posters on campus may suggest, a recent poll of college students taken by the Institute of Politics at Harvard University revealed that college students nationally still favor President George Bush over Democratic candidates in the 2004 presidential race. The poll, released by the Institute of Politics in October 2003, found that 61 percent of American college students approve of the president's job performance.

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Irwin: Global free trade a boon for poor

By AnnMary Mathew | November 5, 2003

Economics department chair Douglas Irwin focused on the beneficial consequences of opening international trade barriers and discussed "Free Trade Under Fire," a pro-trade book he authored last year, during a lecture in Dartmouth Hall last night. "History makes a mockery of the claim that that trade can't work for the poor," Irwin said. Irwin asserted that lower trade barriers create more trade, which ultimately encourages and stimulates economic growth.

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Program seeks to unite women

By Jenn Buck | November 4, 2003

Leigh Heeter '04 wants to ignore race, religion and politics. This doesn't sound like the sentiment of an activist, much less that of a feminist.

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For NPR journalist, 'the wars found me'

By Mark Herman | November 4, 2003

As a war correspondent for National Public Radio, Anne Garrels was one of only 16 American journalists to stay in Baghdad during the initial invasion of Iraq, but she never expected to find herself in such potentially dangerous situations, she said in an interview yesterday with The Dartmouth. "I didn't look for the wars, the wars found me," Garrels said. Garrels began her career as a journalist at ABC News, covering the Soviet Union.

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Conflict marks alumni proposal

By Colin Barry | November 4, 2003

Amid rampant rumors of alumni disenfranchisement, Dartmouth alumni leaders and their critics have clashed over a set of constitutional changes intended to streamline the structure of the College's Association of Alumni.

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Speaker addresses Ovid and love

By Liz Yepsen | November 4, 2003

Ovid's poem "Ars amatoria" cannot be used as a universal textbook on the art of making love, Katharina Volk told an audience in Reed Hall yesterday in her speech "Ovid on How to Make Love in Rome," hosted by the Classics department. Ovid's "Ars amatoria," or The Art of Love, professes to teach the techniques of dating to an audience of young male Roman students. "The book paradoxically professes to teach something that everyone already knows" Volk said. The focus of the work is not on the experience of love, but the rational act of carrying it out and the technique of dating, Volk said. Volk noted Ovid's play on the word "amor," or love, which can reference emotional love, sexual intercourse or the Roman god of love. The "Ars amatoria" suggests techniques for talking and conversing with women, as well as good places to meet women in Augustan Rome.

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Order inducts new members

By Lane Verlenden | November 4, 2003

The Dartmouth Chapter of the Order of Omega held its annual induction ceremony at the Hanover Inn last night, honoring certain members of the Dartmouth Greek system as well as various faculty and administrators.

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